Must Love Hockey by Sarina BowenMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Emily Chen is with her boyfriend Charles and his clients at a Brooklyn Bruisers' hockey game. Charles and his clients want to go on drinking after the game but Emily has to study and she isn't feeling well. After they go on without her it transpires that she is having an allergic reaction to something she ate.
James 'Jimbo' Carozza is the Bruisers' equipment guy, when he sees Emily staggering around at the back of the stadium he thinks she might be drunk but soon realises it is something more serious. James takes Emily to hospital and looks after her. James is really smitten by Emily and thinks Charles is a tool for leaving her when she wasn't well (he's not wrong) but he's content to play the friends card. Will Emily realise that her high school romance has expired and Charles is not the guy for her?
This was pleasant enough, reading some other reviews I see that this short story was serialised for free on the author's website and it does have that vibe. There wasn't really any dramatic tension; two people meet and form an instant connection, she's dating someone, he stays in the friend zone until she breaks up with the other guy, the end.
A Kindle freebie when I bought it.
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